Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čьstiti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From *čьstь, ultimately, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷit-tis, from (s)kʷeyt-.

*čьstiti

1. to honor
2. to revere

• *učьstiti (“to respect”)
  • *učьstivъ (“respectable, polite”)
    • *neučьstivъ (“impolite”)
    • *učьstivostь (“politeness”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чьтити (čĭtiti), чьстити (čĭstiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: чти́ти (čtíti)
      • Ukrainian: чти́ти (čtýty)
    • Russian: чтить (čtitʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: чьтити (čĭtiti)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ча̀стити

    Latin script: čàstiti

  • Slovene: častíti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: čstíti
    • Czech: ctít
  • Kashubian: tczëc, tcëc
  • Old Polish: czcić, ćcić
    • Polish: czcić
  • Slovak: ctiť
  • Sorbian:
    • ⇒ Lower Sorbian: pócćiś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чтить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress